BRFSS 2006 - Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne Counties: (States add a special tax to cigarettes. The national average is $0.84. and the NC tax is 5 cents. <br>How much additional tax on a pack of cigarettes would you be willing to support if a considerable portion of the money raised <br> was used to fund smoki ng prevention programs for our youth and provide treatment options for tobacco users who want to quit?)

2006 BRFSS Survey Results: Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne Counties

Tobacco Use Prevention (Asked January--June Only)

States add a special tax to cigarettes. The national average is $0.84. and the NC tax is 5 cents.
How much additional tax on a pack of cigarettes would you be willing to support if a considerable portion of the money raised
was used to fund smokin g prevention programs for our youth and provide treatment options for tobacco users who want to quit?

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	Total Respond.^	<$0.25-$0.49			$0.50-$1.00			>$1.00			No tax
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	6,118	801	13.7	12.4-15.0	1,349	23.4	21.9-24.9	1,870	31.5	29.8-33.2	2,098	31.5	29.9-33.1
-Dup./Greene/Harn./Jones/Len./Samp./Wayne	192	27	14.3	8.7-22.5	35	14.7	9.9-21.3	66	38.2	28.8-48.7	64	32.7	24.4-42.3
GENDER
Male	68	9	15.9	7.3-31.3	12	10.2	5.2-19.0	21	39.9	25.2-56.7	26	34.0	21.4-49.4
Female	124	18	12.6	7.6-20.2	23	19.6	12.2-30.0	45	36.4	25.9-48.5	38	31.4	21.6-43.1
RACE
White	124	19	14.6	8.7-23.4	25	14.7	9.4-22.4	39	32.1	21.0-45.6	41	38.6	27.2-51.4
Other	66	8	14.2	5.4-32.5	9	14.4	6.9-27.9	26	46.2	30.5-62.7	23	25.1	14.8-39.3
AGE
18-44	81	16	17.0	9.0-29.8	14	12.4	6.8-21.6	30	45.0	31.2-59.5	21	25.7	15.1-40.1
45+	111	11	9.8	5.2-17.7	21	18.6	11.5-28.8	36	27.0	18.7-37.3	43	44.5	34.0-55.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	91	14	18.2	9.1-33.1	12	10.9	5.5-20.6	28	39.6	26.2-54.7	37	31.3	20.9-44.0
Some College +	101	13	10.5	5.7-18.6	23	18.4	11.3-28.7	38	36.9	24.3-51.6	27	34.1	22.0-48.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	106	14	17.5	8.9-31.8	19	16.4	9.4-27.0	36	29.7	19.5-42.4	37	36.4	24.6-50.1
$50,000+	51	5	7.6	2.9-18.3	11	16.4	8.3-29.9	18	47.2	28.9-66.3	17	28.9	16.7-45.0

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^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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